A rare case of hemothorax: Due to thoracic Evving’s sarcoma

GÜVEN SADİ SUNAM, MUSTAFA CİHAT AVUNDUK, SAMİ CERAN, Mehmet Gök, Serhan Poyraz

  • Year : 2003
  • Vol : 19
  • Issue : 2
  •  Page : 119-123
An 11 - year old boy presented to the emergency room with severe dyspnea and left upper chest pain. The initial chest radiograph showed a massive left pleural effusion, opacities in the left hemithorax and lytic areas in the left 3rd rib. A thoracocentesis demonstrated a hemothorax. Despite treatment with blood tansfusions and aspiration of hemothorax, the patient’s clinical status worsened and developed dyspnea. A thoracic computed tomograghic scan demonstrated a mass in the intrathoracic extrapulmonary space and a lytic lesion in the 3rd rib. A posterolateral thoracotomy was performed. Base on histologic findings, evving’s sarcoma vvas diagnosed. He was asymptomatic throughout the 11 months follovv - up. İntrathoracic extrapulmonary thoracic Evving’s sarcoma with spontaneous hemothroax is extremelyare.
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A rare case of hemothorax: Due to thoracic Evving’s sarcoma
, Vol. 19 (2)
Received : 04.10.2002, Accepted : 04.10.2002, Published Online : 01.10.2020
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